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1,429 words match “VERT”

OVERTILT v.
To tilt over; to overturn.
OVERTIME n.
Time beyond, or in excess of, a limit; esp., extra working time.
OVERTIRE v. 2 definitions
To tire to excess; to exhaust.
OVERTITLE v.
To give too high a title to.
OVERTLY adv.
Publicly; openly.
OVERTOIL v. 2 definitions
To weary excessively; to exhaust. Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled By that day's grief and travel. Tennyson.
OVERTONE n.
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmoni…
OVERTOP v. 3 definitions
To go beyond; to transcend; to transgress. If kings presume to overtop the law by which they reign, . . . they are by law to be reduced into order. Milton.
OVERTOWER v. 2 definitions
To tower over or above.
OVERTRADE v.
To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or seleng them; to overstock the market.
OVERTRADING n.
The act or practice of buying goods beyond the means of payment; a glutting of the market.
OVERTREAD v.
To tread over or upon.
OVERTRIP v.
To trip over nimbly.
OVERTROUBLED a.
Excessively troubled.
OVERTROW v.
To be too trustful or confident; to trust too much. [Obs.] Wyclif
OVERTRUST n. 2 definitions
Excessive confidence.
OVERTURE n. 5 definitions
n opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber. [Obs.] Spenser. "The cave's inmost overture." Chapman.
OVERTURN v. 4 definitions
To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
OVERTURNABLE a.
Capable of being, or liable to be, overturned or subverted.
OVERTURNER n.
One who overturns. South.
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